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This is actually the opposite in some states. My post below, for example: The three hottest counties in New Mexico and Idaho have populations under 34000 combi

by batbomb 13y ago

This is actually the opposite in some states. My post below, for example: The three hottest counties in New Mexico and Idaho have populations under 34000 combined. One of them is just 2900 people.

maxerickson 13y ago
A low population makes it easy for a small number of users to dominate the statistics.
- VLM 13y ago
  Yes and a comparison of similar low population counties on opposite sides of the Mississippi river shows staggering difference in claimed result yet no real difference in culture or demographics. We're being trolled, gentlemen. It only remains to figure out why, for what purpose. That troll study might end up being nearly as interesting as the supposed data would be, were it real.
  - maxerickson 13y ago
    I don't think we have enough information to draw any conclusions. In many cases, a single highly active user could be pushing a whole county (which also means that it isn't very suspicious to find a county without one). The number of users tweeting hate and how connected they are to others is probably a more interesting map.
    - VLM 13y ago
      "I don't think we have enough information to draw any conclusions." I would disgree in that we have a geographic claim that, for example, Nebraska and Iowa supposedly have spectacular difference in hate levels, like order of magnitude, yet simultaneously claims that Salt Lake City and San Fran are equally gay-friendly. And on a micro level, the hyper-segregated highly urban area to my east has no racist tweets at all, yet farmville east of the mississippi is supposedly a hotbed of racism but magically it all disappears west of the mississippi. I've lived in both Wisconsin and Alabama and anyone is seriously claiming the racial climate is basically identical? LOL. Nope, we're being trolled here. I do agree with you that more data, or more analysis, would make it more interesting.
      - maxerickson 13y ago
        The map is difficult to interpret. You are making the mistake of conflating the national average rate with "no racist tweets at all". It is a jump to say that the difficulty interpreting the map results from intent of the creators, which is the line I would draw for trolling. It could be titled something like "The Apparent Relative Visibility of Hate in Tweets at the County Level". "The Geography of Hate" isn't such a far jump from there, especially if you are just trying to show that the tweets are coming from all over.

by batbomb 13y ago

This is actually the opposite in some states. My post below, for example: The three hottest counties in New Mexico and Idaho have populations under 34000 combined. One of them is just 2900 people.

maxerickson 13y ago

A low population makes it easy for a small number of users to dominate the statistics.

VLM 13y ago
Yes and a comparison of similar low population counties on opposite sides of the Mississippi river shows staggering difference in claimed result yet no real difference in culture or demographics. We're being trolled, gentlemen. It only remains to figure out why, for what purpose. That troll study might end up being nearly as interesting as the supposed data would be, were it real.
- maxerickson 13y ago
  I don't think we have enough information to draw any conclusions. In many cases, a single highly active user could be pushing a whole county (which also means that it isn't very suspicious to find a county without one). The number of users tweeting hate and how connected they are to others is probably a more interesting map.
  - VLM 13y ago
    "I don't think we have enough information to draw any conclusions." I would disgree in that we have a geographic claim that, for example, Nebraska and Iowa supposedly have spectacular difference in hate levels, like order of magnitude, yet simultaneously claims that Salt Lake City and San Fran are equally gay-friendly. And on a micro level, the hyper-segregated highly urban area to my east has no racist tweets at all, yet farmville east of the mississippi is supposedly a hotbed of racism but magically it all disappears west of the mississippi. I've lived in both Wisconsin and Alabama and anyone is seriously claiming the racial climate is basically identical? LOL. Nope, we're being trolled here. I do agree with you that more data, or more analysis, would make it more interesting.
    - maxerickson 13y ago
      The map is difficult to interpret. You are making the mistake of conflating the national average rate with "no racist tweets at all". It is a jump to say that the difficulty interpreting the map results from intent of the creators, which is the line I would draw for trolling. It could be titled something like "The Apparent Relative Visibility of Hate in Tweets at the County Level". "The Geography of Hate" isn't such a far jump from there, especially if you are just trying to show that the tweets are coming from all over.